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Selenium(You’re doing it wrong)

Adam Goucheradam@element34.ca

@adamgoucher

Thursday, April 7, 2011

General

I call my automation ‘tests’

I call my automation ‘scripts’ or ‘checks’

I call my automation ‘tests’

My goal is to replace humans and push to production faster

My goal is to let humans test higher quality builds with greater efficiency

My goal is to replace humans and push to production faster

Se-IDE

I save my scripts recorded in Se-IDE

I export my scripts recorded in Se-IDE

I save my scripts recorded in Se-IDE

I have locators in my scripts

I have my locators in a user-extension

I use the default formatter

I use a custom formatter

I use the default formatter

I email updates to formats and extensions

I use a site-specific plugin

I email updates to formats and extensions

My application is written in X so my scripts must be as well

I write scripts the language that makes the most sense

My application is written in X so my scripts must be as well

I inherit from my framework’s TestCase class

I have a custom class that my scripts inherit from (-- it inherits from my

framework’s TestCase class)

I inherit from my framework’s TestCase class

I have my locators in a shared <thing>

I use ‘brittle’ locators

I use good structural locators

I use ‘brittle’ locators

I have static data in my scripts

I feed data externally into my scripts

I have static data in my scripts

Describing my scripts I use the word ‘and’

Individual scripts do one thing only

Describing my scripts I use the word ‘and’

I use a ‘procedural’ scripting style

Page Objects FTW!

I use a ‘procedural’ scripting style

I build suites of scripts

I ‘tag’ my scripts and use my framework’s discovery methods

I build suites of scripts

My automation is different than the production code

No. Its not.

My automation is different than the production code

I run my scripts from my local machine

The CI server is my environment of record

I run my scripts from my local machine

Se-Grid

I use Se-Grid for cross browser distribution

I have browser specific jobs in CI

I use Se-Grid for cross browser distribution

I have my own Se-Grid

To the Cloud!

I have my own Se-Grid

And finally...

I will blindly implement what Adam says

I will use my brain and use what works for me and ignore what doesn’t

I will blindly implement what Adam says

Thanks!

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